Webinars

Webinars are the Foundation’s live technical sessions: real-time walkthroughs and discussions, open to anyone. None are scheduled yet, so this page describes how they will work.

After each session, the recording and any materials will be posted here. The archive never sits behind a form.

Sessions cover the practical side of embedded work: board bring-up, debugging techniques, deep dives into subsystems like the scheduler, the IPC layer, or the bootloader. The emphasis is on showing the work as it happens, not on slide decks describing finished work.

Topics come from what people are actually building and struggling with — the bring-up that took three weeks, the bug that only appeared at temperature, the subsystem nobody fully understands yet. The agenda is written by the work, not by a marketing calendar.

Sessions are interactive by design. The presenter shows the work live and answers questions as they come, which means the audience steers as much as the agenda does. A webinar where nothing unexpected happens is a webinar where nobody asked anything — and those are the questions the archive preserves for everyone else.

A live session needs a link and a time; that is the only barrier, and it is unavoidable. Everything else — the recording, the slides, the code shown on screen — is public, with no registration wall and no form asking for your email before you can watch.

The archive exists for the people who could not attend, including everyone in the wrong time zone. Gating the archive would punish exactly the people a foundation should serve, so it will not happen.

Sessions are announced through the News page and the newsletter, with enough lead time to plan around: the date, the time with its time zone, and what the session will cover.

There is no fixed cadence. Webinars happen when a presenter and a topic are ready, which is how a volunteer-run project keeps them worth attending. A quiet month means nothing was worth your time; a busy one means several things were.

Each announcement names the presenter, the prerequisites if any, and where to find the recording afterwards. If a session is cancelled or rescheduled, the announcement is updated rather than deleted, so nobody follows a stale link to an empty room.

To propose a topic, or to volunteer to present one, write to contact@embeddedos.org with what you want to cover and what you would show. Presenters do not need to be maintainers; they need to know their subject and be willing to answer questions live.

A proposal is not a commitment to a date — scheduling works around the presenter — and a proposal that needs more preparation gets it, not a rejection. The goal is a good session, whenever it is ready.

The Foundation is a volunteer-run project, and sessions are scheduled when presenters are available. That means live times will not always be convenient for every time zone, and this page will not pretend otherwise.

The ungated archive is the answer to that: if you cannot attend live, the recording and materials are there afterwards, with no form in front of them. Live attendance is a bonus, not a requirement.